Live Announcement Of Ubuntu International Women’s Day Competition Winners!

by on March 8, 2010 in Community, Ubuntu

At 10am PSt / 1pm EST / 8pm UTC/GMT on Monday I will be doing another live videocast, and this one is a really special one. That day, March 8th, is International Women’s Day and the Ubuntu Women team have been running a competition to gather a wonderful collection of stories about how women discovered Ubuntu. I have been given the honor of picking one of the two winners and the community has picked the other. The two winners will receive a fantastic collection of prizes.

I want to thank all of the awesome entries to the competition and thanks to the Ubuntu Women team for asking me to participate and share the winners. I look forward to see you all then! :-)

Go and watch the live cast here.

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  • Ubuntu men

    It is that Ubuntu is only for men? I do not understand this type of movements, and I seem to discrimination for the men.

    And about http://ubuntu-women.org/faq.html : If only 1.5% are women is because they aren’t interested in FOSS as the men. This is because are less women who prefer informatic-related works.

    Thanks for listening.

  • jono

    A lot of people have your response, Ubuntu men. The reason the Ubuntu Women project exists is to provide a body of work to encourage women to join our community, it does not discriminate against men at all.

    Just because a group exists to raise awareness and encourage a particular demographic, does not mean it by definition discriminates against another group. As an example, we have a global collection of LoCo teams, just because the Ubuntu France LoCo team exists doesn’t mean that it is discriminating people from other countries to join: it is just optimizing the ramp for French people.

    For a long time now it has been acknowledged that some women have had a tough ride getting involved in Open Source, and the Ubuntu Women team is there to help bridge the gap and provide inspiration and and help for women in joining us.

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  • Mel

    Well said Jono!

    My wife loves these kinds of movements, she is very aware of the difficulties women go trough day after day, especially on FOSS.